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President Obama introduced the members of his Economic Recovery Advisory Board at a White House event Friday, staffing his newest panel of advisers with leaders from the financial and manufacturing sectors, as well as representatives from organized labor and academia.

“I created this board to enlist voices that come from beyond the echo chamber of Washington, D.C., and to ensure that no stone is unturned as we work to put people back to work and to get our economy moving,” Obama said. “We will meet regularly so that I can hear different ideas and sharpen my own, and seek counsel that is candid and informed by the wider world.”

There are eye-catching names on the group’s membership list: William Donaldson, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, will sit on the panel, as will General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt.

Two former heads of the White House Council of Economic Advisers claim membership in the group: Laura D’Andrea Tyson, who served under Bill Clinton, and Martin Feldstein, a Harvard professor who served under Ronald Reagan.

And the group will be headed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who Obama called “one of the world’s most experienced and insightful economic minds.”

The President acknowledged that there would be disagreement within the high-powered and heterogeneous group.

“I’m not interested in groupthink,” Obama said. “Not everyone is going to agree with each other, and not all of them are going to agree with me – and that’s precisely the point.”

Anna Burger, from the Change to Win Coalition, and the AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka will provide a voice for big labor. And longtime Obama adviser Penny Pritzker, a Chicago real estate developer, will bring a little hometown flair.